Congress leaders and supporters held a massive protest throughout Uttar pradesh on Monday against alleged defacement of a statue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in Mirzapur on Saturday night.
While State Congress chief Raj Babbar along with Rajya Sabha member Pramod Tiwari rushed to Mirzapur and protested there demanding action against the culprits, in lucknow, senior leaders held a huge protest and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Yogi Adityanath before marching to Raj Bhawan.
In lucknow, the Congress leaders gathered at the GPO and then they burnt the effigies of PM and CM at Hazratganj crossing. later, a Congress deleagtion led by Rajya Sabha member Pl Punia, former Minister Satyadeo Tripathi, Virendra Madan, Sanjay Bajpai, Amarnath Agarwal, DP Singh, Onkar Singh, marched to the Raj Bhawan.
There the angry Congressmen raised slogans against the Modi and Yogi Governments and alleged that they were behind the beheading of Rajiv Gandhi’s statue in Mirzapur.
large contingent of police were deployed to avert any exigency but that could not prevent irked Congress workers and they even marched towards the BJP office to vent their ire. But later they changed their mind and instead went to Raj Bhawan. In lucknow, some youth Congress members also blocked rail tracks near Badshah Nagar railway station.